A worn-looking green, brown, and red pumpjack stands in dry golden-brown scrub next to Highway 33 in California's Central Valley. In the distance, bare hazy hills on the West Side. The light is diffuse under an indistinctly-cloudy autumn sky.

The West Side Highway (California State Route 33), 2024.

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A semi-desert scene: a large colourful 2D James Dean bust in a row of signs next to a Texaco gas station on California's State Highway 33.

Locally Grown Pistachios. Blackwell's Corner, Highway 33, California (2010(ish)). Yes, a James Dean memorial — he died in a car smash here(ish).

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A lone memorial of a bunch of plastic flowers stands upright next to State Highway 33 in California's Central Valley. The ground is light brown and parched and stretches off towards some similarly-parched low rolling hills in the hazy distance.

Highway 33, near Twisselman Road, California (October 2017).

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